DEAD RINGER

by Roger Ormerod ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 1986

Ormerod's latest (Seeing Red, etc.) takes his penchant for wheels just a little too far. This time his hero is Jerry Byles, a psychologically and physically damaged ex-stunt man hired by one-time movie star Stuart Tyson to hand over the ransom money for kidnapped industrialist Howard Maxwell. Tyson works for Maxwell's partner, Ian McBride, who's gathering the half-million ransom, with Maxwell's wife Kathleen putting up her company shares as security. The delivery goes wrong, of course, and Tyson winds up dead, the money still in the car next to him, his ex-wife Sandra--once Jerry's girl, now apparently Maxwell's mistress--on the scene. There's plenty of jumpy pacing here, car chases, oblique conversation and twists and turns that defy compression. And the reader who makes it to the end will find a halfway convincing denouement--but is it worth it?

Pub Date: July 1, 1986

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Scribners

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1986

Categories: FICTION